We worked Memorial day, but I didn't because Monday is/was my regular day off. Yeah it's nice to have the day off, but like Lazlo said, you pay for it later, really pay for it. There's a memo stuck everywhere that we're working the 4th, but I knew all along because it falls on a Friday. You want to **** off management? Call in sick on a Friday, any Friday will do. Friday is way too big a day to just shut down even if it is the 4th.
Because of the highway construction downtown this year, they are holding the celebration in the park, and they won't allow any parking in the park, you'll have to walk or take public transportation. So maybe it won't be so bad for us this year. I've had to deliver downtown with the celebration in full swing on the 4th before and it is very clusterful.
It will usually work three ways, we'll all be off, then we're all overwhelmed the next day, or they'll have a limited number of routes and ask for volunteers, then force the lower men in, or they'll work everyone, then only let a few senior people off for sure, everyone else who wanted off will have to call Sunday night around 7:00pm. It's holiday roulette. I don't care anymore, I'll take the money, or I'll take the time. They get their 70 hours, and the rest belongs to my wife evidently.